What worries me about D'Antoni... look at the Pelicans...

You're right about the Pelicans and Gentry.

But how is the Suns systems from the Nash days any different than Golden St? I'm not a basketball technical expert, but they seem kinda similar.

 

It's simple -- this isn't football.

You can bring in a "Defensive Coordinator," but you don't have players on your team that only play defense like in football. You can't coach/teach them defensively without taking time away from offense.

Meaning -- when a HC known for his offense takes over a team, he's not going to let the assistant coach devote 1/2 the practice or more to defensive principles. He's going to want to work on, install and perfect his offensive principles.

JVG and Thibs teams were great defensively because they spent excessive practice time on the defensive side. You don't get that with an offensive HC, no matter who you pick to be the "D-coordinator."

 

You can't really discuss the pelicans without bringing their injury and roster mismanagement to the forefront of conversation.

 

Which I would attribute to roster mismanagement.

I'm not defending the coaching here, but the pelicans injury track record and roster management over the past couple of years, they are in the bottom 10% of both categories.

They traded 2 first rounders for Jrue Holiday (who played 102/164 total games past 2 years), traded for eric gordon who has never played 65 games in a single hornet's season, acquired tyreke evans, and paid omer asik......

Its a really terribly built team, healthy or not, which could have Pop at the helm and see poor results all the same.

 

So the thing that worries OP about MDA is the same thing that worries everyone else about MDA? Interesting.

 

to use a football comparison
the same difference between run-and-shoot and the west coast offense - one is based on speed, passing and big plays (7 seconds) and the other uses a hybrid offense to create opportunity for big plays within the context of a traditional offence. Right now the Warrior take shots at the basket - that is how they are able to open up those spots on the parameter

 

one thing to remember is Gentry is a lot worse than D'Antoni, Gentry only got hired because of the Warriors success. He has had 4 winning seasons as coach and 9 Non winning seasons

 

If I recalled correctly, didn't the Pelicans have injury issues with Holiday, Ryan Anderson, Tyreke, and Anthony Davis this past season?

 

Do u know the amount of injuies they had ??

 

what worries me the most is that the new coach will have to spend a lot of time working on defense AND offense, so I guess there's only a small chance we will be ready to be a good team from the start.

 

Jrue holiday and tyreke suck too. Dont like them on any roster tbh

 

2014-2015 season was so injury plagued. The 2-6 seeds in the west were all as good as each other. This showed in 2015-2016 season when the spurs and thunder are 2 and 3 seeds. The pelicans made the playoffs as a result to the west being weaker due to the injuries to all the other teams. Also Anthony Davis was healthy last year that is all what matters to make round 1 of the playoffs. Stars get u into playoffs and wins u games. Thats why westbrook and durant beat the spurs.
I never understand why we thought we were such a great team when we made the WCF in a weak year. I sure hell know if the thunder were the 3 seed last year we would have been bounced round 1.

 

Hey - there is a voice of reason. I didn't think there were any left on the board...